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State's Health-Plan Chief
Faces Fierce Opposition

By

Mitchel BensonStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 16, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

SACRAMENTO -- In less than a year since taking over regulation of the state's health-care plans, Keith Bishop has signed scores of enforcement actions, collected more than $1 million in fines, increased eightfold the number of medical consultants who review consumer complaints and cut the backlog of those complaints by some 75%.

So legislators and patients' rights groups must be singing Mr. Bishop's praises, right?